Movie - Now is Good

This is my attempt to race through 5 cinema reviews as I simply have not had a minute through a very busy August and September to even write them.  The most I’ve fallen behind in the last four years is 2-3 but I’ve barely enough time to watch them lately but I’m glad I managed to catch a few.So a brief take on Now is Good, about a teenager in Brighton with terminal leukaemia, a doting father who is separated from her mostly absent party-girl mother.With her last few months, all Tessa really wants to do is break a few rules and tick some things of her during her short lifetime. All her dad wants to do is help her live. All her mother does is pretend it’s not happening.It’s a bit of a teen flick (although all ages were represented in the cinema) so there has to be an inevitable teen romance which changes things a bit, in that Tessa has someone to love and to love her. It will be cruel to go through life without that, no matter what the age. Of course ordinarily us oldies would say what do they know about love? But in this case,  young love is encouraged.With shop lifting and losing virginity on Tessa’s ‘bucket list’ the father has a hard time in coming to terms with where his good girl has gone, never mind that she is soon to leave him forever. Iit’s a beautiful story that doesn’t miss out on any of the terrors that I cannot begin to imagine someone going through and yet has some delightfully funny moments.7½/10Smile factor 6/10 (a lot of tears)